The Liberal government, supported by 29 Labour PartyMPs, crafted the People's Budget, which introduced social legislation, such as old age pensions and unemployment insurance for a significant part of the working population. For many working people, for whom in old age the threat of the workhouse was very real, these represented a very significant change. Equally groundbreaking was the Parliament Act 1911 which:

Removed the law-making veto from the House of Lords thus rendering it constitutionally most expedient to run any future government from the House of Commons

Gave planned budgetary free rein to the House of Commons (all Money Bills) and

Helped to shape the later Salisbury Convention under which the House of Lords does not by convention oppose manifesto commitments